Religion & Spirituality - 4 September 2006

Suffering happens. We, everyone else, every creature gets frustrated, scared, hurt, hungry, thirsty, grows ill and dies.

But human beings have asserted suffering spawns from "evil." For example, to Osama Ben Laden, the Westerners are evil. To Westerners, Al-Qaeda is evil. However, all are simply stating that the source of their suffering is evil.

But what if there is no such thing as "evil"? Is it possible that human beings have invented evil to explain our experience of suffering? Is the concept of evil creating a distraction from dealing with the experience of suffering?

2006-09-04 06:15:30 · 10 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7

2006-09-04 06:15:25 · 14 answers · asked by (\ G®1M R34|Dê® /) 4

If christianity chooses not to follow the original laws (which Jesus did), then how come they are still published in all the versions of the old and new testament? I think Christianity made its own interpretation and kept the laws that they liked, and dropped the ones they didn't (like eating pork for example) It just seems hypocritical. if you're going to have beliefs, don't pick and choose, follow all the testaments printed or don't print them. Keep in mind, I am a believer, just a questioner.

2006-09-04 06:15:15 · 4 answers · asked by Mandy A 2

His death, of course, is more than tragic. We have lost one of our planet's most colorful members. I'm curious, however - what were his religious beliefs? Chrisitan? Agnostic? The Church of Crocodilian Authority?

2006-09-04 06:13:09 · 11 answers · asked by Jack J 1

2006-09-04 06:11:30 · 10 answers · asked by pak bob 3

were you warning your friends and families to repent? if you did then i bet you still feel pretty silly huh?

2006-09-04 06:07:21 · 17 answers · asked by Pale_13 2

2006-09-04 06:05:16 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-04 06:04:53 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-04 06:04:29 · 18 answers · asked by maddie r 2

God killed millions of people in a great flood. He killed a whole army in the red sea. He killed his own son on the cross (when you hang on a cross, your lungs fill up with fluid and you drown.)

With all of the millions that drowned in the bible by the hand of god, how come drowning isn't part of the worlds capital punishment?

2006-09-04 06:02:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

or just trout?

2006-09-04 06:01:49 · 40 answers · asked by XYZ 7

Can you give me some info about the 8 sabbats in the Wheel of the Year?
I need the names and descriptions of them. I'd also like to know how they are celebrated.

2006-09-04 06:01:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the Buddhist religion we believe hell is a state of mind, one of the six in this world. Does any other religion share this belief?

An Excerpt from the "Tibetan Book of the Dead":

We can begin with he realm of hell, which is the most intense. First there is a build-up of energies, of emotions, to a crescendo, so that at some stage we find it very confusing whether he energies are controlling us or we are controlling them. Then suddenly we lose track of this whole race, and our mind is put into blank state which is the luminosity. From that blank state an intense temptation to fight begins to develop, and that paranoia also brings terror. Originally the paranoia and terror were supposed to fight against something, but one is not quite certain whom exactly one is fighting; and when the whole thing has developed, the terror begins to turn against oneself. When one tries to strike out, instead of striking the projection one is striking inward.

2006-09-04 06:01:21 · 7 answers · asked by Shinkirou Hasukage 6

Okay, so If I understand what you are all saying, God changed his mind when he sent Jesus here? He told us one things and then later said it no longer mattered what he said before?

2006-09-04 06:01:00 · 20 answers · asked by Mandy A 2

2006-09-04 05:57:33 · 22 answers · asked by Muslimah 2

1. I am the Lord thy "Sean". You shall have no other "Sean" besides me.

2006-09-04 05:57:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

or can I pick one?

2006-09-04 05:51:32 · 8 answers · asked by obsession0524 2

2006-09-04 05:50:41 · 20 answers · asked by haleybabe5256 1

Conpassion and forgiveness are taught in a number of religions. Is it “good” or “bad”.
And if it is good, as I believe, why is it not popular in our world.

2006-09-04 05:50:00 · 13 answers · asked by fresch2 4

and pls dont tell me to look it up, lol

2006-09-04 05:49:39 · 7 answers · asked by obsession0524 2

what gives the right to say something is a cult? they are just practicing what they believe in just like all other religions do so why cant we say christianity is a cult?

2006-09-04 05:47:07 · 20 answers · asked by Pale_13 2

2006-09-04 05:46:13 · 55 answers · asked by maddie r 2

I believe that someone named "Sean" started the universe. Not God, actually people who talk about God are false prophets, and in my religious book, called "autobiography" these false prophets are prophosized about.

"Sean" created the universe. "Sean"'s prescense, will, if you felt his loving prescense, or saw Sean on a webcam, or heard his voice on the phone, you would believe. Some even dwell in the "house of Sean".

I guess the only way for you to know that "Sean" is real is to ask "Sean" into your life.

Its a leap of faith.

Is it wrong for people who have seen "Sean" or heard "Sean" on the phone, to tell other people that "Sean" is in fact a real "entitity". They can't prove it, to know "Sean" you have to expirience "Sean" for yourself.

Is it wrong or bad that people believe in "Sean".

I guess the difference here is you can click on the jim darwin avatar and send jim darwin and email and sean would email you back.

2006-09-04 05:45:53 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

What do you think of our religion(islam) ?You know in europe and amerika there are many negative ads of us but their not true.in fact in iran we know bin ladan and saddam as terrorists we dont accept them our holy book even doesnt accept them because it says to us to live in pease with every one ,no difference in religion,honour and respect your parents even they dont believe in god and of course theres no difference between shiites and sonits and i think we have no difference to other religions . we pray 5 times a day we have a month of fast and we love peace as we have now in iran completely no woman is complaining about hijab and they think it secures them from bad and wicked eyes. thats it all now whats your point of view?

2006-09-04 05:44:18 · 28 answers · asked by Iran 1

or the fundamentalists? They seem to live in a world constrained by so many limits. They hold them selves to impossible standards and beat themselves up when they can't make it. Every where they turn there seems to be a big NO or STOP sign. I would not live their lives for anything.

2006-09-04 05:43:11 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seems to me that 99% of the time that people tell me that their god(s) have spoken to them, the god(s) have always just told the person what they wanted to hear in the first place.


I know that I'm cynical. I'm agnostic. It comes with the territory.

But have others noticed this pattern?

2006-09-04 05:43:01 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-04 05:39:59 · 42 answers · asked by Pale_13 2

if you pray for ten or more things a day and a few of them come true

was your prayer answered or would you be willing to accept coincidence?

2006-09-04 05:39:05 · 19 answers · asked by Pale_13 2

If been wondering about this so why?
Thanks ~grabiel s~

2006-09-04 05:38:59 · 19 answers · asked by the fallen one 2

2006-09-04 05:35:24 · 24 answers · asked by the Kazaam 1